| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghostbusters | $21,065,996 | $13,059,428 | 62% | $8,006,568 | 38% | 1,506 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Gremlins | $18,015,439 | $11,420,965 | 63.4% | $6,594,474 | 36.6% | 1,511 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $11,768,218 | $7,768,527 | 66% | $3,999,691 | 34% | 1,600 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Rhinestone | $8,001,142 | $5,459,726 | 68.2% | $2,541,416 | 31.8% | 1,630 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | The Karate Kid | $7,914,299 | $5,031,753 | 63.6% | $2,882,546 | 36.4% | 931 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $7,191,337 | $4,802,493 | 66.8% | $2,388,844 | 33.2% | 1,532 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Top Secret! | $6,684,650 | $4,406,205 | 65.9% | $2,278,445 | 34.1% | 1,100 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Natural | $2,795,162 | $2,064,956 | 73.9% | $730,206 | 26.1% | 970 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Pope of Greenwich Village | $2,391,608 | $1,544,624 | 64.6% | $846,984 | 35.4% | 677 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 10 | Romancing the Stone | $2,086,972 | $1,351,076 | 64.7% | $735,896 | 35.3% | 842 | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Beat Street | $2,051,823 | $1,369,357 | 66.7% | $682,466 | 33.3% | 762 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Police Academy | $1,521,686 | $1,030,241 | 67.7% | $491,445 | 32.3% | 750 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Breakin' | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Streets of Fire | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Footloose | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Sixteen Candles | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Under the Volcano | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
